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Lions Gate Latin America

800 Brickell Avenue
Suite 350, Miami, Florida 33131.

Jairo Medina
Executive Vice President

Tels: +1 305 529 6590 / 88
Mob: +1 305 898 1687
Email: Jairo.medina@lionsgateuw.com

Jairo is a fully qualified Colombian lawyer and has a master’s degree in Insurance and Reinsurance law by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia). He has over 30 years’ experience writing Surety bonds (performance bonds, advance payment bonds, concessions bonds, permit & license bonds, maintenance bonds, quality bonds etc) in the Latin American and Caribbean market with high profitability results. He has published several books and articles on the topic and he has been a regular speaker in the Pan-American Surety Association (PASA) conferences. Over his professional career he has been the lead surety underwriter for several Insurance Companies (Confianza Seguros-today Swiss Re-, Seguros Colombia) and Reinsurers both as an employee (Folks America) or though binding authorities under his own MGA (Ironshore, Lloyd’s of London, Torus, Barents Re, etc).


Mario Andrade
Head of Financial Lines

Mob: +52 55 41 94 97 76
Email: Mario.Andrade@lionsgateuw.com

Mario holds a degree in Financial Management from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) with studies at the Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, has an MBA and postgraduate studies in Private Equity and Banking & Financial Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM) and the Instituto Empresa in Madrid, Spain. He has more than 12 years of experience in Financial Lines, both in the Underwriting and retail/reinsurance brokerage sides of Directors & Officers, Professional Indemnity, Financial Institutions, Cyber, SPPI and other FL coverages. He has participated as speaker in various seminars, conferences and events in the financial, business and insurance sectors in Mexico and Latin America, including the Lloyd´s Academy LATAM forum as well as collaborations in radio programs and written media. In recent years he has specialized in regional risk underwriting in various companies from AIG and Zurich to Newline Syndicate and currently Lions Gate UW.


Emanuel Rochell
Client Service /  Account Executive

Email: Emanuel.Rochell@lionsgateuw.com

Emanuel holds a degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana. With more than 7 years of experience in the insurance sector, Emanuel launched his career as an intern at GMX, an insurance company in México. This experience provided him with a strong foundation in the sector. He then secured a position as broker at PWS México, Reinsurance Broker, later a BMS Latin America Reinsurance Broker where he successfully contributed to the placement of multiple accounts across various lines of business including Property, Marine, Liability, SPPI and Financial Lines. In his current position at Lions Gate UW, Emanuel is responsible for overall business portfolio growth and expansion efforts, including providing service to customers (internal and external), ceding companies and brokers.